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I use firehol which is fairly straightforward (I just couldn't be bothered spending any more time on the ins and outs of iptables), though I don't think there's been any updates recently, and you need to make sure you provide it with a correct list of reserved IPs as the inbuilt one is quite out of date.
In the Op's script IPT=$(which iptables) ...or even the command at bash prompt doesn't work? ..I use ALienBoB's firewall generator, but was curious why it doesn't work?
Using whereis iptables does?
Forget that...it does, don't know what I was doing wrong.
I now know, I wasn't root.
A question though, why does whereis work and not which work as user?
Last edited by basil_brush; 10-26-2012 at 11:19 AM.
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